19. April 2022
Las Vegas, USA
Artistic Gymnastics
Hungary's two-time Olympic champion Margit Korondi passed away ...!

 As has just become known, 2022 on March 6th, a few months before her 90th birthday, Hungary's two-time Olympic champion and eight-time Olympic medalist, Margit KORONDI, passed away in her adopted home of Las Vegas (USA).
With a total of 8 Olympic medals and 2 Olympic games, Margit Korondi is one of the most successful Hungarian gymnasts of all time. Korondi was born on June 24, 1932,

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14. April 2022
Lausanne / SUI
Artistic Gymnastics
FIG: Announcement on the Paris 2024 Olympic Qualification System

* f i g --: The Olympic qualification systems for ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS, RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS and TRAMPOLINE GYMNASTICS for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games have now been published following approval by the Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) earlier this month:
A total of 318 athletes (192 in artistic gymnastics, 94 in gymnastics and 32 in trampoline) will compete for the medals in the French capital. With the qualification process set to begin in...

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29. März 2022
USA, Texas
Artistic Gymnastics
Simone Biles does not rule out continuing her career

Six weeks after the Olympic Games in Tokyo, superstar Simone BILES had mused after she had stopped her Olympic competing: "I should have stopped before Tokyo!"
A good six weeks after her engagement to Jonathan Owens, she expressed herself in a USA Today interview again, but rather in the opposite way: "I want to see what I'm capable of, how talented I can be," said the now 25-year-old exceptional athlete, that she has come back...

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21. März 2022
Moscow, RUS
Artistic Gymnastics
FIG is considering a year's ban for provocation at the World Cup in Doha

According to statements by the Russian head gymnastics coach Valentina RODIONENKO to the Russian press, the World Gymnastics Federation (FIG) is considering a one-year disqualification of the gymnast Ivan KULIAKbecause of the incident of political provocation at the award ceremony at the Gymnastics World Cup in Doha as well as the responsible coaches Rodionenko and Igor Kabushkin. Instead of removing official Russian state symbols from his jersey for the award ceremony, gymnast Kuliak covered them with a "Z"...

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20. März 2022
Stuttgart, GER
Artistic Gymnastics
37th International DTB-Cup 2022

After a two-year Corona break, the 37th DTB Cup 2022 took place in Stuttgart / Germany.
Outside of the World Cup series in this year, it was a multi-gym event: It consisted of Team Challenges for men and women and for the first time also for juniors.
The highlight was the world premiere of a mixed cup for teams on the last event day in the Porsche Arena of the Swabian capital ...:
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